Caribbean Multihull Racing Articles
BVI Spring Regatta: Where Speed Meets the Islands There are regattas you race.
And then there are regattas you experience.
BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival has always been firmly in the second camp — a place where world-class racing meets trade wind sailing, island geography and just enough unpredictability to keep everyone honest.
And in 2026, it delivered exactly that.
A fleet stacked with variety. A racecourse that rewards instinct.
© Michael Hodges
Fast boats, close racing and Caribbean water doing what it does best.
29-04-2026
Jason Carroll’s MOD70 Argo stormed around the 48-nautical-mile circumnavigation in 2 hours, 29 minutes and 20 seconds, rewriting what is possible on Antigua’s classic coastal course.
The numbers tell one story. The breeze told another.
With 20 knots at the start and proper Atlantic swell wrapping the eastern flank of Antigua, the island delivered a course that was anything but flat water exhibition sailing. This was full trade-wind pressure, the kind that loads up the rig and punishes hesitation.
31-03-2026
Argo Unleashed Around Antigua
The lap that every Caribbean multihull crew measures themselves against just got faster.
The Antigua 360 Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in partnership with the Antigua Yacht Club, now has a new outright benchmark.
31-03-2026